“We already knew that Gary Lambert supported cap-and-trade energy taxes, but telling people to give up their Dunkin’ Donuts for a few months to ‘save the environment’ is the kind of rhetoric you’d normally hear from a Democrat candidate, not a Republican one,” said Club for Growth Spokesman Barney Keller. “Gary Lambert is almost comically liberal, which is why his campaign is floundering and New Hampshire conservatives are rushing to support taxpayer hero Marilinda Garcia instead.”

Video Transcript:

GARY LAMBERT: Alright, the next thing I hear is it’s a tax. Well I looked all through RGGI…and I don’t see anything about a tax.

You can call it a tax. We called something here (unintelligible) not too long ago.

Alright. You can call it a tax, whatever you want to call it. But here’s the deal. Even if you want to call it a tax it’s 36 cents a month on the average taxpayer.

So I understand…I’ve got constituents in my district and there’s some really downtrodden poor people in my district that live in Nashua. So maybe 30 cents is a lot to them and I’m sure it is.

But for all those folks going to Dunkin’ Donuts…don’t buy a coffee for four months and help the environment. That’s what I’m asking you to do.

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